When he began talking about the arrest of Nikki Stone July 28, Mayor de Blasio pointed out that the Warrant Squad Detectives who took her into custody were doing what they were supposed to: arresting someone who had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court.
Then he went sideways by lamenting the spectacle that had been created by her arrest, and the fact that it involved cops in plainclothes grabbing her and pulling her into an unmarked van. It looked a bit too much, the Mayor suggested, like what had been going on in Portland, where personnel from various Federal law-enforcement agencies had been snatching protesters of the street without cause and spirited them away from the scene, before eventually turning them loose.
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